The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-05-03
LEAGUE IMPUDENCE.

Perhaps the most impudent NANTES
tation of cheek yet seen in this country
is that of which Loyal League commit
tee has just been guilty. 1t was ex-
planned in the city papers last week
how the committee had failed to bull
doze the Utah Commission into a viola
ton of the law in the matter of the
oath to be subscribed by citizens as a
condition precedent to the right to vote.
The Commission had formulated an
oath in strict conformity with the law,
following the language of the statute
when it could be done; but the
oath was not satisfactory to the Loyal
League managers. The latter set out
some time ago to obtain political con-
troll of this Territory, and they did not
propose to hesitate as to the means en-
ployed; they wanted the Offices and, by
foul means or fair, proposed to take
them. Congress refused to become a
party to the scheme, and last week the
y .ah Commission also declined 10 join
hands with the conspirators in setting
aside the law and helping along to sue
cess the infamous.plot.
Nothing dsunted by their repeated
rebuffs and disappointments the con-
spirators have now undertaken to
work the scheme through the registra-
ton officers. They have placed in the
Of hn osckH
registrars copies of the oath formu.
lated some time ago and which the
Commission was asked to adopt in the
place of the one which 1t had framed.
The registrars are, asked to use ihs
League oath instead of the Commits
sion's, and We understand have been
assured that attorneys will be EN-
Ployed to defend them in the suits for
; damage which are certain to follow
their disregard of the Law. and their
obedience to the League whip.
AS an : exhibition of i'm
pudsnce,. this proc edilg goes
ahead of every thing heretofore wit
messed. What won't the League man
, ayers assume to be and do pext2 They.
arrogate to themselves rights and pri-
vileges which courts and executive
officers cannot exercise; and set them
selves up as the dictators of the Terri
tory, passing by such insignificant
Creatures as duly commissioned Federal
officials, and not troubling themselves
about such trihing obstacles in the way
of their schemes SIS United States and
Territorial statutes.
We do not apprehend that the i'm
-pudence Of the conspirators will sue
coed. The registrars and deputies hold
their Offices by virtue of appointments
by the Commission; the authority
which made a registration officer can
unmake him, and would doubt
less be exercised to that end
if an official were to violate
his trust and assume to be greater than
his creator. 1t will not, however, be
wise to put too much trust in this be-
Hef in the probity of all the registration
officers. Some of the deputies are
doubtless members of the Loyal League
and these may try to obey. their League
masters instead Of the law and the
commission. It will, therefore. be well
for the Peoples party committees
everywhere, to be on the alert to see
that citizens are not deprived of their
rights and prevented from having
taeir names enrolled on the registra-
ton list ANY attempt to obey the
order of the League in defiance of the
law and the Commission should be
promptly reported to the latter, and
legal proceedings at once instituted to
secure to the citizen his right to the
exercise of the franchise.